Nisswa, Minnesota

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• Glacial Water Spas to host Nisswa at Night Network
  

  Nisswa Chamber of Commerce member Glacial Water Spas at Grand View Lodge will host Nisswa at Night Networking from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.

• City budgets keeping up with snowfalls
  

  Tina Nolden with the Pequot Lakes Public Works Department worked to uncover a manhole in Pequot Lakes.

• How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree
  

  Recycle your Christmas tree: Trees will be chipped for use at Northland Arboretum.

• Lake Shore: Council approves 2009 levy, budget
  

  The Lake Shore City Council on Monday adopted the 2009 tax levy of $783,172, and a 2009 general budget of $844,439. Council members also adopted a 5.8 percent cost-of-living increase for city employees.

• Highway 371 communities to seek federal funding for project
  

  A Highway 371 committee that includes representatives from Nisswa, Pequot Lakes, Jenkins, Pine River and Crow Wing County is looking to apply for federal funding to move up the date to expand Highway 371 to ...

• Temperatures should begin to warm up Friday
  

  After back-to-back weekend snowstorms that left the lakes area in a deep freeze, yet another storm could be headed our way this weekend.

• Crash Leads to Arrest in Nisswa
  

  A 45-year-old woman was taken into custody following a two-vehicle crash in Lake Edward Township Friday morning.

• Lakes area cities wait to see if they'll receive state money that's due to them
  

  As state legislators debate how to deal with a recently announced $5.2 billion deficit, municipalities wait to see how they'll be affected.

• Area firefighters busy in past week
  

  A Nisswa firefighter battled a fire that engulfed a house on Crow Wing County Road 127 north of Merrifield on Dec.

• Lake Country Faces: Retired teacher busy as usual
  

  She's a music teacher, mother of six, 25-year Greater Lakes Area Performing Arts member, singer, costumer, watercolorist, choir and band director, reader, food shelf volunteer, grandmother of five, and wife.

• Area police chiefs say county on right track to get off list of...
  

  Area police chiefs believe Crow Wing County will get off the list of deadliest Minnesota counties for drunken driving.

• Nisswa woman dies in single-vehicle crash
  

  A 41-year-old Nisswa woman died Thursday, Dec. 4, when the vehicle she was driving left the roadway, hit a tree and rolled, reported the State Patrol.

• Single Car Crash Claims Nisswa Woman
  

  Cass County authorities report a single vehicle crash that occurred around 9 pm on December 4, 2008, on County Road 77 near the intersection of Maple Drive, resulted in the death of Julia B. Evanson of Nisswa.

• 2 killed in crashes in Cass, Freeborn counties
  

  A Nisswa woman and Nebraska man were killed Thursday in separate crashes on Minnesota highways, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

• Fire damages cabin at Grand View Lodge
  

  An unoccupied cabin at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa sustained fire and smoke damage in a fire Friday morning, Nov.

• Fire Damages Cabin at Grand View
  

  Fire damaged the home belonging to the Tiedemann family of Breezy Point on the morning of November 20, 2008.

• Vogt's Notes: Don't venture out on thin ice
  

  As I enter my third winter season driving north on Highway 371 to work every day, I continue to marvel at the lakes I pass.

• Nisswa: City's proposed 2009 levy reduced further
  

  Nisswa residents would see their 2009 tax levy increase 2.72 percent, or $41,757, over 2008, if the city council adopts the current preliminary budget and levy.

• Lake Shore: Bukovich apologizes for comments
  

  Lake Shore City Council member John Bukovich publicly apologized for remarks he made at last month's council meeting, and refused a citizen's suggestion that he resign his council seat.

City Description

Nisswa is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,953 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city is near Gull Lake. Smiley Township was founded in 1900, but local resident Leon Lum convinced residents to rename it Nisswa, from the Ojibwe word "nessawae" (which means "in the middle" or "three"), when the town was incorporated as a village in 1908. On December 4, 1946, Nisswa became a municipality. Surrounded by lakes, Nisswa is part of the Brainerd Lakes Area. Minnesota Highway 371 serves as a main route in the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.4 square miles (47.6 km²), of which, 10.9 square miles (28.2 km²) of it is land and 7.5 square miles (19.5 km²) of it (40.84%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,953 people, 819 households, and 577 families residing in the city. The population density was 179.5 people per square mile (69.3/km²). There were 1,532 housing units at an average density of 140.8/sq mi (54.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 98.87% White, 0.26% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.10% Pacific

City Contained By:

• Crow Wing County
• Minnesota

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 47.6557812302 km squared

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